Humans have a disturbing tendency to put form over purpose, ritual over comprehension. - Dick Dowdell - Medium

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Humans have a disturbing tendency to put form over purpose, ritual over comprehension.

Dick Dowdell

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A former US Army officer with a wonderful wife and family, I’m a software architect and engineer who has been building software systems for 50 years.

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